Sounding Boards

Where do you turn to for advice? A friend, coworker, the internet?

Ideas don’t thrive in a vacuum, and giving them oxygen sometimes means tossing them out to someone else who brings a different perspective.

Finding those sounding boards can take some effort, however.

Fortunately, there are some go-to places in the area to find options and see how they fit for what it is that you need. Several of them can be found in the pages of this issue, in very different ways.

First up in discovering new perspectives is seeing if you need to recalibrate your own. In our WILMA Leadership section, Lisa Brooks writes about unlearning old habits to let new ones in. “Unlearning invites you to listen closely and notice what is happening beneath your surface. To explore blind spots, hopes, dreams, and new perspectives without assuming there is a single right answer that you are failing to find,” she writes here.

For those blind spots, sometimes it’s a mentor – or peer mentor – who can help add that perspective.

A roundup of mentoring groups and resources can be found here for the issue’s Plugging In directory. One of those groups is the Cameron Executive Network to help mentor UNCW students.

And sometimes mentoring means simply learning – passing on a skill or tip.

It might be picking up a new sport, a new menu, or a new hobby.

Lauren James is no stranger to sharing advice. As a travel and lifestyle influencer, she often updates her followers on recommendations. But it’s her latest project, bringing women together for mountain retreat trips, that offers up perspective overhauls.

Flip through and see what views might open up in the latest WILMA.

Vicky Janowski
WILMA Editor
editor@wilmingtonbiz.com

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